Quotes: Agnes de Mille

"Disappointment has gotten a bad reputation, but it's where you're going to spend most of your time if you're any kind of artist."

 –– Agnes de Mille (1905-1993), American dancer and choreographer 

Quotes: Bette Davis

"Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success." 

–– Bette Davis (1908-1989), American actress

Quotes: Agnes Martin

"It is through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint." 

–– Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Canadian-born American abstract painter 

via: Anvil Knapsack Sketchbook 2017, p. 30.

Quotes: Sue Bender

"It's the enjoyment of every step in the process of doing; everything, not only the isolated piece we label art. If accomplishing it is the only goal, all that it takes to reach that goal is too slow, too fatiguing an obstacle to what you want to achieve. If you want to rush the accomplishment, it is an inevitable disappointment. Then you rush to something. The disappointment is reaped over and over again. But if every step is pleasant, then the accomplishment becomes even more because it is nourished by what is going on." 

–– Sue Bender (b. 1933), American writer, family therapist and ceramic artist 

Source: Sue Bender. Plain and Simple.

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 71.